Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google Webmaster Tools Upgrade, Yoast Plugin Bug & Mobile Growth appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Millions of WordPress sites may be exposed to a Blind SQL Injection vulnerability due to a security hole in the very popular Yoast SEO plugin. The plugin has been updated, make sure to update your plugin. The post Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Vulnerable To Hackers appeared first on Search Engine..

Hacker News reports that a vulnerability affecting millions of users has been found in industry leading WordPress plugin SEO by Yoast. According to an advisory, all versions of SEO by Yoast prior to 1.7.3.3 are vulnerable to Blind SQL Injection web application flaw.

Yesterday in a Google hangout on Google+ with Google’s John Mueller I had to ask John about the whole real-time/instant Panda thing Gary Illyes may or may not have said at SMX West…

Brand Verity’s Q4 study looks at trademark usage in paid search across 10 industry verticals. The post Report: Brands May Lose 10K to 60K Visitors Per Month To PPC Trademark Bidding appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Last week we covered a new research paper Google published on ranking web pages based on facts. It turns out that some people felt that Google may be using it as a ranking factor in the near future…

Executive Editor Kelsey Jones and Social Media Manager will be at SXSWi 2015 as press, which runs from March 13-17 this year. The post SEJ Will Be at #SXSWi 2015 by @wonderwall7 appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

New consumer survey data from Thrive Analytics (for the Local Search Association) reflect the emergence of a large and growing mobile user segment dubbed “mobile fanatics.” Just over 40 percent of the US smartphone population, these mobile users search more and rely more on their mobile… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

You can target audiences on Facebook with a dozen different ad formats and thousands of possible ad targeting parameters. Mastering your Facebook targeting strategy gets you in front of very specific and often motivated segments of your audience, on the network where Americans religiously spend an average of 40 minutes of their day.

Google has updated its suite of Webmaster Tools to increase reportage of which site resources are blocked from crawling. This new transparency could mean a boost in rankings